JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

VOLUME 14,  NO. 6

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

REVIEWS

Short Normal Stature and Psychosocial Disadvantage: A Critical Review of the Evidence

L.D. Voss, Plymouth, UK ....... 701

 

Feminizing Genitoplasty in Patients with 46XX Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

A. Farkas and B. Chertin, Jerusalem, Israel ........  713

 

INVITED COMMENTARY

The Complexity of Body Composition Evaluation in Children and Adolescents (see p. 725)

A. Eliakim, Tel Aviv, Israel .............  723

 

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

The Anabolic Steroid Oxandrolone Increases Muscle Mass in Prepubertal Boys with Constitutional Delay of Growth

A. Papadimitriou, M.A. Preece, M.F. Rolland-Cachera and R. Stanhope, London, UK ...........  725

 

Can GnRH Agonist Treatment Cause Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis?

M.J.E. Kempers, C. Noordam, C.W. Rouwé and B.J. Otten, Amsterdam, Nijmegen and Groningen, The Netherlands ........  729

 

An Open-Label Acceptability Study of Norditropin SimpleXx – A New Liquid Growth Hormone Formulation

R. Stanhope, C. Buchanan, G. Butler, C. Costigan, D. Dunger, S. Greene, H. Hoey, I. Hughes, C. Kelnar, J. Kirk, J. Komulainen, M. Lowry and J. Warner, London, UK ........  735

 

Serum Levels of Cytokines in Children and Adolescents with Graves’ Disease and Non-toxic Nodular Goiter

A. Bossowski and M. Urban, Bialystok, Poland ........  741

 

Multinodular Goiter in Children

S. Al-Fifi and C. Rodd, Abha, Saudi Arabia and Montreal, Canada ..........  749

 

Critical Growth Phases for Adult Shortness in Hong Kong Chinese

Z.C. Luo, L.C.K Low and J. Karlberg, Hong Kong, PR China ...........  757

 

Prevalence of ICA and GAD Antibodies at Initial Presentation of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Singapore Children

Y.-S. Lee, W.-Y. Ng, A.-C. Thai, K.-F. Lui and K.-Y. Loke, Singapore, Singapore  ...  767

 

Study of Zinc and Growth Hormone in Sickle Cell Disease

P.M.F. Oliveira, L.C. Póvoa, M.H.C.F. Oliveira and W.C. Pfeiffer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil .......  773

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Seasonality of Birth in Children (0-14 years) and Young Adults (0-29 years) with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Sardinia Differs from that in the General Population

M. Songini, A. Casu, The Sardinian Collaborative Group for Epidemiology of IDDM, I. Ashkenazi and Z. Laron, Cagliari, Italy and Tel Aviv, Israel    781

 

Prolonged Hypocalcemia in a 2 Month-old Boy Unmasking Maternal Diagnosis of Primary Hyperparathyroidism

A.P. Cemeroglu, E. Böber and A. Büyükgebiz, Izmir, Turkey ...........  785

 

PATIENT REPORTS

Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone-Independent Precocious Puberty in a 5 Year-old Girl with Suprasellar Germ Cell Tumor Secreting β-hCG and a-Fetoprotein

J. Starzyk, B. Starzyk, A. Bartnik-Mikuta, W. Urbanowicz and H. Dziatkowiak, Krakow, Poland ......  789

 

47,XYY Karyotype and Normal SRY in a Patient with a Female Phenotype

S. Benasayag, M. Rittler, F. Nieto, N. Torres de Aguirre, M. Reyes and S. Copelli, Buenos Aires, Argentina .......  797

 

Hypospadias in a Patient with Kabuki Make-Up (Niikawa-Kuroki) Syndrome

E. Çetinkaya, E.D. Mısırlıoğlu, S. Vidinlisan, Z. Baydar and Z.R. Özhan, Ankara, Turkey ...........  803

 

Cohen Syndrome with Acanthosis Nigricans and Insulin Resistance

S. Kumandaş, H. Gümüş, S. Kurtoğlu, B. Elmas and O. Kontaş, Kayseri, Turkey ........  807

 

BOOK REVIEWS ......  811

CALENDAR ........  813

 

Indexed or abstracted by:        BIOSIS, CABS, Current Contents/Life Sciences, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus, Research Alert and Science Citation Index

© Freund Publishing House Ltd. 2001

 (2001)